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Part one A
1. Who is the person being interviewed?
The person Being interviewed is named Sallie Smith
2. What is his title or position?
She is a farmer.
3. What is his race, gender, and age?
She is a middle-aged white woman
4. Where is the Interview taking place?
This interview is taking place in her house in Burksville, Alabama.
5. What is the date of the interview?
this interview is taking place on December 17, 1938.
6. Who is the interviewer?
The interviewer is Mrs. C.W.Higgins.

Part One B

Image, Source: b&w film copy neg. of print

This picture is a good example of the Great Depression because they are sharecroppers but they have no supplies because they cannot afford it, and since they have no supplies they have no money. In the Great Depression people would lose their supplies all the time because it was a bad time and people would just go around stealing from others so they could get what they need. These people were very poor and suffered very badly which most people did during the Great Depression.

Part 2 A

Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Observe:
1. Describe what you see.- I see a poor farmer family standing outside their house.
2.What do you notice first? I notice the bad roof and the bad clothes they are wearing.
3.What people and objects are shown? There are 8 black people, a poor house and a farm in the back.

Reflect:
1.What’s happening in the image? The people are staring at something that is near their house.
2.What can you learn from examining this image? I can learn that lots of people could barely afford clothing and a house and the farming didn't help much.
3.If someone made this today, what would be different? Everything would be different because they would have more money and they wouldn't be so desperate because of their farm.

Questions:
What were the people staring at?

Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Observe:
1.Describe what you see. I see a man standing in front of a grocery store looking at the window.
2.What do you notice first? i notice the nicely dressed man standing in front of a store.
3.What is the physical setting? The physical setting is in a town.

Reflect:
1.What’s happening in the image? A man has stopped to look at the writing on the store window.
2.If someone made this today, what would be different? If this were made today the prices,and the store would be more modern and the products would be all inside. Also, the man would have modern clothes.
3.What would be the same? The place would be the same and the building.

Questions:
What was the man going to buy?
Why are there products outside when people could just steal it.
Why would someone take this photo?

Image, Source: intermediary roll film

Observe:
1.Describe what you see. I see three sisters and their brother standing in front of their house or a shack.
2.What is the physical setting? The setting is near the woods in a small town.
3.What other details can you see? I see they are wearing nice clothes but have no shoes.

Reflect:
1.Why do you think this image was made? This image was made to show how they were outcasts because it said they didn't want to be with blacks and whites hated them.
2. What’s happening in the image? The kids are posing for this picture.
3.What’s missing from this image? Their shoes and a nice town are missing from this photo.

Questions:
1. What happened to their shoes?
2. Why do they look completely different but are brothers and sisters?
3.Where is the rest of their family?

Part 2B

Theatre in Leland, Mississippi

Observe:
1.Describe what you see.- I see a theatre, but only for colored people.
2.What people and objects are shown? A theatre is next to an electric building in a strip of other buildings.
3.How are they arranged? They are arranged in a building strip next to each other like a plaza.

Reflect:
1.What’s happening in the image? Nothing is happening in this photo.
2.If someone made this today, what would be different? If this were made today the things that would be different are the colored people only wouldn't be there and it would be a building of its own not next to others.
3. What would be the same? The named of the theatre.

Questions:
1. Where are all the people?
2. Why is the theatre so small?
3. Who took this picture?

Secondhand clothing stores and pawn shops on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Observe:
1.Describe what you see.- I see black men in front a hotel on a busy street.
2.What do you notice first? The first thing i notice is the sign for Hotel Clark and the saying under it.
3.What people and objects are shown? There are four black men, clothes hanging, and store/ hotel signs.

Reflect:
1.What’s happening in the image? the men are either buying the clothes are coming out of the hotel.
2.If someone made this today, what would be different? There would be white and black people and the clothes would be inside the store.
3.What would be the same? Nothing would be the same.

Questions:
1. Why are the clothes hanging and not inside a store?
2. who are those black men?
3.where is this taking place?

Street scene near bus station in Durham, North Carolina

Observe:
1.Describe what you see.- I see white women walking up a sidewalk on a busy street.
2.What do you notice first? The first thing i notice is the white ladies only sign on the door.
3.What is the physical setting? On a busy road in the middle of a town.

Reflect:
1.What’s happening in the image? White women are walking up a sidewalk in a white town.
2. If someone made this today, what would be different? White and black people would walk up and down the sidewalk and the sign on the door would be taken off.
3.What would be the same? Nothing would be the same.

Questions:
1. Where was this photo taken?
2. Who are those women?
3. when was this photo taken?

Part 3 A


Many people had jobs they loved to do and others did their job because they were making money and that's all that mattered. In one interview with a stone cutter named Mr. Garavelli, he said that everyone always died or got sick from silica but he didn't, but he also made very little money, so to him it wasn't worth it in a way. Another person named Chris Thorsten, who was an iron worker, did not enjoy his job as he said, "You ain't an Iron Worker unless you get killed... Men hurt on all jobs.". He was once crushed between a crane and broke his collar bone, all of his ribs, and three vertebrae, so he wasn't so happy with his job. Also, a butcher named Jim Cole didn't mind his job because he made his money, but he did want to work somewhere else, but he wasn't allowed to because he was black. One person in Eddie's Bar in New York had been there for 25 years, wanted nothing to do with the people there he just wanted to do his job and that's it because he didn't like the thieves. Lastly, a housewife named Mrs. Mayme Reese, who of course had no job, loved getting together with other women and quilting together, and then enter their own quilts in the fairs to see who'd win. She may have not had a real job but she loved that job.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/garavel.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/thorsten.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/jimcole.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/manbar.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/mayme.html

Part 3 B

1. Who is the person being interviewed?
The person Being interviewed is named Sallie Smith
2. What is his title or position?
She is a farmer.
3. What is his race, gender, and age?
She is a middle-aged white woman
4. Where is the Interview taking place?
This interview is taking place in her house in Burksville, Alabama.
5. What is the date of the interview?
this interview is taking place on December 17, 1938.
6. Who is the interviewer?
The interviewer is Mrs. C.W.Higgins.


1. Who is the person being interviewed?
The person being interviewed is named Jesse Owens.
2. What is his title or position?
He is an Olympic winner, or the fastest runner in the world.
3.What is his race, gender and age?
He is a black male but it does not say how old he is.
4. Where is the interview taking place?
the interview is taking place in a house in Macon County, Alabama.
5. What is the date of the interview?
The date is April 22, 1939.
6. Who is the interviewer?
The interviewer's name is Rhussus L. Perry.

There were many interviews taken during the Great Depression to show how bad life was. They talked about how tough their lives were and the events that when on in their life. One interview on December 17, 1938, with Sallie smith, was about how she had to work so hard everyday on her farm to get her crops good enough to sell and she barely got by doing that. She would even pay a boy 50 cents to drive her the normal place she goes to and an extra 50 cents to drive her anywhere else. She had a terrible time making a living no matter how hard she worked, but she worked enough to survive. Fortunately, about four or five months later on April 22, 1939. an interview took place in Macon County, Alabama with Jesse Owens, the world's fastest runner. In his interview, he talked about how he was raised with seven other brothers and sisters to share-cropper parents. But as he got older he got into running, and he got lucky to become so fast he got a chance to be in the Olympics. He ended winning, and became the world's fastest runner. As you can see so people work very hard and barely survive off it, and others are born with a gift to get them very far in life.